Are You Afraid

Chapter 1 - Ryōsuke Nakamura

-Kiku's POV-

Are you afraid your nightmares might come true?

As I was waiting for my friends to come over, meanwhile, I was having a cup of tea. I knew it was stupid, and not like me, but for some reason I was getting second-thoughts about my friends coming over. I was...afraid. What if they got hurt? Or-

Knock Knock.

With a heavy sigh, I placed my cup down, and walked over to the door. Shyly, I opened the door, expecting to see all of my friends, but instead to be surprised just to see a little boy.

"Konnichiwa." [Hello] the little boy said, bowing politely.

"Konnichiwa." [Hello] I greeted back, with a small bow as well. He's really polite... I thought.

"May I ask..." the little boy began, "where this would be...?" he held out a piece of paper to show me. I looked at the paper he was showing to me luckily recognizing the address.

"Ah, that place," I said with a small smile. "Come here, I'll show you where it is... By the way, what's your name?"

"Ryōsuke Nakamura!" the boy said answered.

"My name is Kiku Honda. Well, I'll be right back. I'm going to grab my coat."

Ryōsuke just nodded and said, "Okay!" he grinned.

-Ryōsuke POV-

Kiku smiled at me (again), before disappearing into his house to grab his coat. As soon as I knew he was out of sight, I slapped the grin of my face.

"God, I hate acting so polite and happy. It sickens me."

I grinned again as Kiku walked in putting on his coat. "We could go now."

"Okay."

-Kiku's POV-

I smiled as I locked the door. This wouldn't take long, I'd be back soon. Just drop off Ryōsuke and come back home, I'm sure they could wait a bit until I got back.

"Now we could go." I said, looking at the little boy.

"Thank you for helping me, Honda-san."

"You're welcome, Nakamura-san."

Walking there, I started having thinking about my decision to help Ryōsuke. Was it really okay? I didn't know him... Whatever, it'd be all right. Nothing bad could happen with helping a little kid such as Ryōsuke. Right?

As Ryōsuke and I approached a hill, my hands started to uncontrollably shake. The little Japanese boy looked up at me.

"A-Are you okay?" he asked, worry laced in his voice. His left hand squeezed my right hand, in a helpless manner of comfort.

"Y-yeah, I'm fine." I brought my left hand to my arm and gripped it nails digging into the skin. It stopped them from shaking, overall, just not as bad.

When we were on top of the hill, my vision had started to blur and I was also getting very dizzy and my whole body was trembling. I felt Ryōsuke let go of my hand, as he did, I collapsed to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Ryōsuke asked, his voice laced with that of a dark form.

"W-what?" I asked, but it just made me feel even more dizzy. Ryōsuke placed his hand on my shoulder, "It's going to be all right." he told me, with his voice, and the more sinister one. "I'll take care of you." I saw Ryōsuke smirk, before I slipped into oblivion.